If you wanted to just watch, you turned right, you parked the car, and looked at the Nitro cars going 300 m.p.h. You could actually feel the vibration of the deafening sound go right through your body.

You could go to the snack shack and grab a hot dog or some nachos and it was a great way to spend an evening.

But sadly, it has closed. The owner won’t say why.

But the story is often the same.

Andrew Wolf, who wrote about Island Dragway for the racing site Dragzine, said a lot of tracks are like it and were built before the mini-malls and subdivisions.

“There was no one around, and that’s what’s happening with these tracks all over the country. The neighbors are moving in to an area that already had a racetrack. They knew it was there and they don’t like the noise,” Wolf told WCBS 880’s Wayne Cabot. “They claim, I guess, that there’s pollution issues, and there may be, but they move in and then they want the track closed and that’s what’s happening to a lot of places like Island Dragway.”

Fans are not giving up, using social media to get the owner to unlock the gates when springtime comes.